Appendix 2
High Level Goal 2 – Partnership, Inclusion and Equality
Submission source Summary of Issue Raised relevant to this High-Level Goal 2.2.10 Age Friendly Cork City
This submission aims to promote the participation, health and wellbeing and access to more responsive, caring, and accessible services for Cork City’spopulation of older people. In doing so it shows an integrated policy alignment approach in that it makes strong reference to UN/WHO themes for ensuring a city’s age friendly status, including outdoor space and buildings, transportation, housing, social participation, respect and social inclusion, civic participation and employment, communication and information and community support and health services. Its key recommendations are: • Housing: the LECP should support older people living at home for longer both in terms of supporting their well-being but also improving their health. • Design and Placement in an urban setting should be age-friendly with more street furniture, age friendly parking, age friendly toilet, green space, lighting facilities and the removal of barriers to the use of outdoor spaces (including footpath maintenance) • Improve accessibility to shops and businesses through better signposting, fewer heavy doors, support with digital challenges and support for age-friendly businesses. • Improve bus shelters, provide more age friendly bus services, and tackle anti-social behaviour on public transport. Ensure traffic calming and adequate road crossings are in place. • Provide more Gardaí on the streets. • Offer more age friendly activities to combat loneliness through employment, volunteering, and training activities. • Improve the voice of older people in civic planning. • Engage with the Cork City Age Friendly Alliance as a key stakeholder for Cork City Council and to endorse its objectives and action plan. Design a “Cork City for All Ages” strategy to enable re-emergence of older people into city life after COVID.
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